(ii) Political transition

His goal is vast power for Rupert Murdoch, political power .

How can one possibly share political authority with foreigners?

On the political front, a power vacuum must be avoided.

Later, the Camerlengo also took political power, as President of the City Council.

Specifically, the Agreement provides for the devolution of power to the very areas where grievances have centred on exclusion from political access and economic benefit.

Instead, the new strategy was to sideline the issue of political power.

Francia was no longer barbaricum trans Rhenum (barbarians across the Rhine), but a landed political power on both sides of the river, deeply involved in Roman politics.

But all of this would be aimed at maintaining political power, rather than reforming it.

Losing political power, blacks suffered a deterioration of their legal and political rights in the years following.

Political frameworks, in turn, rest upon norms and institutions, but also upon the management of coercive power.

Why do political elites block reforms that would spur economic growth and development? Because growth and development would undermine their hold on political power.

The possibilities of economic change are limited not just by the realities of political power, but also by the poverty of our ideas.

We talked the terrorist IRA and their political wing into the political process and the sharing of power.

These were centres of trade, manufacturing and political power with nearly no agricultural production of their own.

The February Revolution in Russia in 1917 caused the collapse of Russian political and military power in Finland.

Political power was displayed not just by rule, but also by displaying wealth.

How will the Palestinian body politic deal with the growing power of the Islamic movements that undoubtedly will expect a significant share of power in post withdrawal Gaza?

For any satisfactory progress to be achieved, one has to address the question of the distribution of economic power that is, development and equally of political power of which, in the United Nations, the Security Council is the locus.

In fact, because he has pushed harder than his predecessors, his star is falling faster. Moreover, the controversial presidential election of June 2009, and the political crisis that ensued, irreparably damaged Ahmadinejad s democratic legitimacy.

What enabled reform was not a reconfiguration of political power, but the emergence of new strategies.

A power vacuum sucks in all political forces and creates incentives to achieve ascendancy at all costs.

Political players need to be nudged to agree on the rules that organize how they compete for power.

Globally, we must allow political and social power to establish their rightful place next to economic power.

It is said that political power in Pakistan flows from the three A s Allah, the Army, and support from America.

The AKP came to represent this new elite and its quest for political power.

The government, headed by the prime minister, thus represents the political leadership of the country and makes decisions in the name of the whole executive power.

These contributed to segregationist white Democrats regaining political power in all the Southern states by 1877.

Concerning the domestic political process, Burundi's main opposition parties urged the Council to remain vigilant regarding the implementation, by the Government, of the constitutional provisions on power sharing.

There are also speculations that a certain quarter is trying to get rid of these political icons and use the space to clinch power.

But the real source of Iran s dysfunctional economy is the country s peculiar political and economic power sharing.

Indeed, such structural changes would weaken the elite s grip on political and economic power.

The State party considers that the transfer of political power has therefore substantially reduced the complainant's risk of being subjected to detention and torture.

Women are underrepresented in positions of political and administrative power, and have little representation in the institutions of civil society.

For example, low power distance is associated with consultative political practices and income equity, whereas high power distance is correlated with unequal income distribution, as well as bribery and corruption in domestic politics.

This is the main reason why it will be difficult for Japan to conclude the proposed trilateral FTA, despite Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda s recent endorsement of it.

Unfortunately, one must wonder to what extent these ratings are distorted by the eurozone countries political power.

But the culture that Saddam created convinced Iraqis that political connections are the only way to gain authority, money, and knowledge.

The second complicating factor is that political power now lies in the hands of competing militias.

Alas, Russia is moving more in the opposite direction political power is becoming more, not less, concentrated.

The revolt was a form of political expression, but its aim was not to seize political power as such.

It voted the grand coalition out of office with a bang, consigning the Social Democrats to the political abyss. Only ruins remain of the once proud Gerhard Schröder s SPD.

From this base, they acquired political power initially in Florence and later in wider Italy and Europe.

In crimes with political motivation, the serenity of justice could be called into question.

For more than three decades, no one really challenged the consequences of turning political power over to the highest bidders.